Song Survey Thingy (That Was Difficult Since I Don't Have iTunes)

Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to
answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how
embarrassing it is.

How many songs: 385 (yeah, it's pitiful . . . yet I'm used to my home computer, which died if you put more than about 100 songs on it . . . ).

Sort by song title:
First Song: “Symphony #9 (Scherzo) by Beethoven (this was on there, already, though, as an example song; the first real song is “Home” by Three Days Grace.
Last Song: “Christmas In New Orleans” by Louis Armstrong.

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: At 1:00 exactly, three-Way Tie: “Milo” by Modest Mouse, “Romance,” and “Troika” from The Lt. Kije Suite by Prokofiev, both only part-way played songs, examples yoinked from Amazon.com “Listen to” on the CD purchase part of the site . . .
Longest Song: At 15:05 minutes, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Vaughn Williams.

Sort by album:
First Song: From the “*Unknown Album*” album, “Population Zero” by Jim Tyrrell, a guy who wrote and posted free songs for us to download during NaNo.
Last Song: From the “X and Y” album, “Speed of Sound” by Coldplay (even though I don’t have that album, it just copied the information over from when Keith gave me all those songs :-P)

Top Five Most Played Songs (I don’t know this, so I just went to “My Favorites—4 and 5-star ratings” at Windows Media Player—the rest of this was done on RealPlayer—and played shuffle on what I got . . . ):
1. “Fragile” by Sting.
2. “Before The Dawn” by Evanescence.
3. “Zombie” by The Cranberries.
4. “What It’s Like” by Everlast.
5. “Boadicea” by Enya.

First song that comes up on Shuffle: “The Portrait Gallery” from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by John Williams.

Search:
"sex", how many songs come up? 1 (I’m Too Sexy by Right Said Fred).
"death", how many songs come up? 6.
"love", how many songs come up? 13.
"you", how many songs come up? 34.

Song Survey Thingy (That Was Difficult Since I Don't Have iTunes)

Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to
answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how
embarrassing it is.

How many songs: 385 (yeah, it's pitiful . . . yet I'm used to my home computer, which died if you put more than about 100 songs on it . . . ).

Sort by song title:
First Song: “Symphony #9 (Scherzo) by Beethoven (this was on there, already, though, as an example song; the first real song is “Home” by Three Days Grace.
Last Song: “Christmas In New Orleans” by Louis Armstrong.

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: At 1:00 exactly, three-Way Tie: “Milo” by Modest Mouse, “Romance,” and “Troika” from The Lt. Kije Suite by Prokofiev, both only part-way played songs, examples yoinked from Amazon.com “Listen to” on the CD purchase part of the site . . .
Longest Song: At 15:05 minutes, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Vaughn Williams.

Sort by album:
First Song: From the “*Unknown Album*” album, “Population Zero” by Jim Tyrrell, a guy who wrote and posted free songs for us to download during NaNo.
Last Song: From the “X and Y” album, “Speed of Sound” by Coldplay (even though I don’t have that album, it just copied the information over from when Keith gave me all those songs :-P)

Top Five Most Played Songs (I don’t know this, so I just went to “My Favorites—4 and 5-star ratings” at Windows Media Player—the rest of this was done on RealPlayer—and played shuffle on what I got . . . ):
1. “Fragile” by Sting.
2. “Before The Dawn” by Evanescence.
3. “Zombie” by The Cranberries.
4. “What It’s Like” by Everlast.
5. “Boadicea” by Enya.

First song that comes up on Shuffle: “The Portrait Gallery” from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by John Williams.

Search:
"sex", how many songs come up? 1 (I’m Too Sexy by Right Said Fred).
"death", how many songs come up? 6.
"love", how many songs come up? 13.
"you", how many songs come up? 34.

Life's A Musical

I had a dream two nights ago that I was Eponine (again) in a high school performance-- I think it's because it's almost Musical time of year again, and I'm going through withdrawal (lol)-- and I seem to have internalized her because I keep singing everything from Les Miserables now. Her parts. All the freaking time.

. . . which means I'm getting better at them, but still. People look at you funny when you're just half-singing "On My Own" while walking down the hall-- every time you're walking down the hall . . .

At least I finished two more songs for my Les Miserables Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince parody musical while on this roll, lol . . .

. . . but Eponine's just depressing, really. She's never happy, and then, when she finally is, it's because she's dead and Marius is finally paying some freaking attention to her. I love tragedy and the whole story, but . . . I haven't really been in a tragic mood that I would need to internalize her, lol . . .

(Plus, the only recording I have to sing along with to is the Frances Ruffelle version, which I really don't like . . . )

Life is a musical. I've been possessed by Eponine, Lisa, Patricia, and I sing snatches of passages from Wicked on occasion (like after ice-skating, lol . . . ), everyone was singing "Masquerade" from Phantom of the Opera at the Masquerade, of course, and Keith's been steadily progressing through all of the songs from Phantom of the Opera as The Song Stuck In His Head For The Day since Lisa loaned him her Broadway cast recording of it, lol . . .

I guess I'll be prepared just in time to go home, lol . . .

In other news, Reading Week ROCKS!!! I like having all this time; all I have to do is the Introduction to East Asian Religions take-home examination, and study for the written portion half of the Japanese exam on Friday.

Life's A Musical

I had a dream two nights ago that I was Eponine (again) in a high school performance-- I think it's because it's almost Musical time of year again, and I'm going through withdrawal (lol)-- and I seem to have internalized her because I keep singing everything from Les Miserables now. Her parts. All the freaking time.

. . . which means I'm getting better at them, but still. People look at you funny when you're just half-singing "On My Own" while walking down the hall-- every time you're walking down the hall . . .

At least I finished two more songs for my Les Miserables Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince parody musical while on this roll, lol . . .

. . . but Eponine's just depressing, really. She's never happy, and then, when she finally is, it's because she's dead and Marius is finally paying some freaking attention to her. I love tragedy and the whole story, but . . . I haven't really been in a tragic mood that I would need to internalize her, lol . . .

(Plus, the only recording I have to sing along with to is the Frances Ruffelle version, which I really don't like . . . )

Life is a musical. I've been possessed by Eponine, Lisa, Patricia, and I sing snatches of passages from Wicked on occasion (like after ice-skating, lol . . . ), everyone was singing "Masquerade" from Phantom of the Opera at the Masquerade, of course, and Keith's been steadily progressing through all of the songs from Phantom of the Opera as The Song Stuck In His Head For The Day since Lisa loaned him her Broadway cast recording of it, lol . . .

I guess I'll be prepared just in time to go home, lol . . .

In other news, Reading Week ROCKS!!! I like having all this time; all I have to do is the Introduction to East Asian Religions take-home examination, and study for the written portion half of the Japanese exam on Friday.